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Thursday, 30 September 2010
Lunch at the IMPERIAL war museum
I was looking for light and air.. I came here but felt claustraphobic.. surrounded by white.. that's not unusuaul but I wondered do you see me as the enemy. I think some of you did, not just a paranoid patatoe I'm carrying but the context, I saw younger men who have probably fought and lost and seen things they should never have to see. Do things, they should never have to do... and older families mainly men... its cold, whiteness, where do you go?
Conversations - direct & Collective
Going backwards and forwards and the day mashes together.. heavy text madness as I mistake some timings and am caught in the midst of Patrick and Nanook and Lisa and her 8.5months ness meeting to take some rushes. The guilt? What do I stop? What do I start? I can't work by text? I am..
Lisa has rushes of Felicity, Harry, Karen & Tony aiming to transcribe by next Friday. I need to check if uni lends out laptops, it would make it easier for her. (ask on facebook? Intimate but not direct to anyone, just everyone!). She is also keen on 3 screens.. use of black screen white text to expose some backdrops...give dates, historical Tory speeches, interwoven. Will see whats missing from what we want to expose, discuss and shine a light upon. What happened in an obvious politicial way to the other layers of what happens, the personal changes and challenges.
MUSIC: I have a thing about spoons, Terry Fields ex MP, played the spoons at the end of gatherings, folky, round, practical, alive! Also both of like the idea of some massive attack, something from Blue lines. Tony mentioned Factory did a fundraiser with the Fall for the 47, chaos?! Maybe a bit of o classical... Old tapes of Paragonz, Spontaneous, etc.
EDIT: Lisa still keen to learn FCP and also do this and in some ways so am I, gets closer to the footage and creative process but hands, fucking hands, fucked.. not fucked just. Earlier Chris E from LSBU said if I send through a treatment there might be a camera or editor they could recommend. Would like someone to sound mix too. Though Maxim from Cam Branch might be good, good politics and also amazing time lapse footage.
CONTEXT: Both agreed we would like relevance visualised, events and lobbies via Pete M or Creative Commons agreements. Also to include the recent 25000 redundancies in Sheffield and others in Brum. Compare and contrast with the tactical use by Liverpool to give them more time, though this was used to further attack the 47. Images of black cabs, redundancy has to be discussed and why. Note what the mainstream story is and what is beneath the surface. Be god to get interview of Derek H and Jackie. Would be mad not to have Derek in there, if anyone knows about what went on, they will know of him and perhaps re-interview some to deepen the information, or speaking whilst outdoors, doing things.. Context of industrial action, Wapping, GCHQ.
Other footage - Ask John Kennedy and also keep him posted about our project.
FUNDING & CONTRACTs: collaberative contracts for all those involved, net profit based on role/time used. Maybe Sophie or an Arts Manager who wants to focus on Film... develop fundraising model and distribution or database elements. Lots of tasks but be good to have some skills that are developed not just to be developed. More skills and focus on me than just on others.
Chris also told me there was a history to 3 screens from pre Renaissance.
Look at Bill viola The passing - 1 screen his child, one him in water and the third his mother, dying. (makes me think about Last picture of you, another unfinished project...)
3 is also an important number
Film: TIMECODE
Chantal Akermann - 70's
Storytelling technique 'News from home'
Image in frame is scanned.
Reading suggestions from Chris E:
Film - Andrea Arnold (Red Road)
Exhibtion - Surviellance & the State @ tate (is that possible this week???)
Consider sensor projections... interactive... ?? What does that bring or give?
Perhaps a place that people could record their own memories of the 47 or what was going on then and now?? Youtube with camera in computer, an old version of the voxpop?
Consider how the 3 screens will relate to each other, what dialogues? abstract? representational, add layers? Why not a traditional narrative? What is the relationship between form and content? The form won't allow me the layers I would like to see and process to be reflected. Somethings of ti, somethings of Lis, somethings of us...
(add some texts or comments of process? I can't work by texts? Comments on facebook?)
When - JAN Draft test space, rushes interwoven in lab.. how does this work? How could it work?
If I was to distribute Dave's work - Key cities, Liverpool, Manchester, London, Coventry, Brum, Sheffield, Kirklees, Cardiff. As part of discussion for anti cuts alliances? Mayday?
Wednesday, 29 September 2010
Housing - 'London planners from Evening Standard
This got a big plug from people I know on Facebook, Evening Standard particularly this:
The most distinctive feature of the militant Left's rule of Liverpool in the Eighties was its impact on urban renewal. Responding to the local public, the council smashed most of the hated towers to the ground and left neighbourhood groups to plan their replacements. The result was no more decks, stairwells and broken lifts set in windy parks, as dictated by professional architects. Instead people decided to revert to terrace houses, like those taken from them in the Sixties. It was an object lesson in democracy.
Cinematography @LSBU - People, place, space
Was always drawn by this session but scared, dam scared that I would want the detail, want what the real options offered me but they're not options are they?! I can't afford to get lost in detail... I can. I can and I can chose that too.
We had SONY XDCAM PMW-EX3 - shoots 60fps and has a lot of extras and lenses which give me film quality at 1/3 of the price. We tested out lenses to see and feel the differences in small groups. Much more fineky... and filters which could shift lift, adapt light and move light. One filter which would be good to use would be the polarising one, which is shooting from the outside in, from outside a car or bus and to take off the reflections. Got to touch a camera and lense or two.. was good, the quality, the control....
With the class who I did FCP with which is funny, they seem nice and I remember one or two.
Tutor is gentle and was interested in the project I was doing, her partner was the son of a miner and from Derbyshire and what that meant.. so much to say and do. The layers. She is open to share and interested, good to share the ideas and see how and what people think about them and what they might want to contribute. The energy the possibilities. Saw GK too, the man who runs all the technical things here and more. He had encouraged me to take more of the undergraduate modules which he could see from the footage I would have a better understanding of the work I was creating and how and why. To develop an ability to understand and articulate the astethic which is a key part of this piece, the form and content are important. Not just one. One without the other would not make sense and would deny the context and contexts within which we operate.
She showed us Ak - Seven Samouri -(just changed this link, wiki talk about it better than imbd which is commercial titles not why or who. it tells me/ us more not selling us the product but the process, context and how it made a difference to his career and where it is in relation to others). who used mainly long lenses, this gave the background and foreground equal balance, like in Japanese art. Makes the context more or more equal. Its not just this character, this but this is also part of that and that is moving too, together. A dialectical relationship, movement is important to me.
Suggested two key books:
Grammor of the shot - Thompson
Cinematography: Theory and practice - Brown 2002
We had SONY XDCAM PMW-EX3 - shoots 60fps and has a lot of extras and lenses which give me film quality at 1/3 of the price. We tested out lenses to see and feel the differences in small groups. Much more fineky... and filters which could shift lift, adapt light and move light. One filter which would be good to use would be the polarising one, which is shooting from the outside in, from outside a car or bus and to take off the reflections. Got to touch a camera and lense or two.. was good, the quality, the control....
With the class who I did FCP with which is funny, they seem nice and I remember one or two.
Tutor is gentle and was interested in the project I was doing, her partner was the son of a miner and from Derbyshire and what that meant.. so much to say and do. The layers. She is open to share and interested, good to share the ideas and see how and what people think about them and what they might want to contribute. The energy the possibilities. Saw GK too, the man who runs all the technical things here and more. He had encouraged me to take more of the undergraduate modules which he could see from the footage I would have a better understanding of the work I was creating and how and why. To develop an ability to understand and articulate the astethic which is a key part of this piece, the form and content are important. Not just one. One without the other would not make sense and would deny the context and contexts within which we operate.
She showed us Ak - Seven Samouri -(just changed this link, wiki talk about it better than imbd which is commercial titles not why or who. it tells me/ us more not selling us the product but the process, context and how it made a difference to his career and where it is in relation to others). who used mainly long lenses, this gave the background and foreground equal balance, like in Japanese art. Makes the context more or more equal. Its not just this character, this but this is also part of that and that is moving too, together. A dialectical relationship, movement is important to me.
Suggested two key books:
Grammor of the shot - Thompson
Cinematography: Theory and practice - Brown 2002
Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Today is interesting.. a few days ago Dave Photographer who has some amazing pictures of Liverpool at key points, including the 47 and dockers emailed. He is thinking of doing 2 slideshows with speakers, recounting memories and stories from that time. One is a docker and another from the 47.... funny how things far and close begin to merge.
Just spoke and he is putting in a proposal to WOW and hoping to get them to arrange the event in Liverpool. It would be good, but also in other key cities.. this is what we did, could do and discuss our worlds.
So easy for me now to think about his project and getting that out there.. but I need to do what I was going to do.. though the two are very interlinked. Standing alone pieces will be some of the same story and add layers with a Q & A. I want more women profiled too, what they say, what they do.. but his work is amazing and my technique and skills are slow and painful. Do you give up on your projects because others are more skilled? Be interesting to see how this flows. Have sent D the updated proposal and see how he responds. Also need to send it to Chris from Uni and maybe Sophie, external influences.. but also I want a Producer, co-producer.. work with me...
So easy for me now to think about his project and getting that out there.. but I need to do what I was going to do.. though the two are very interlinked. Standing alone pieces will be some of the same story and add layers with a Q & A. I want more women profiled too, what they say, what they do.. but his work is amazing and my technique and skills are slow and painful. Do you give up on your projects because others are more skilled? Be interesting to see how this flows. Have sent D the updated proposal and see how he responds. Also need to send it to Chris from Uni and maybe Sophie, external influences.. but also I want a Producer, co-producer.. work with me...
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